Project: AMGEN MSB Ph 3

Water Heater Calculation

Document No:
Rev:A
Date: 14-Nov-2017

Design Criteria
a) Assume water heater efficiency = 80%
b) Cold Water Temperature = 25
c) Hot Water Temperature = 65
d) Required Water Temperature = 40

e) Flow Rate:
Kitchen Sink = 8 litres/min

f) Calculating hot and cold water ratio:

Percentage of hot water = Mixed - Cold 40-25 15
= =
Hot - Cold 65-25 40
= 37.50%
Plumbing Engineering Services Design Guide
BS:6700
Simultaneous demand process formula: m = n + 1.8 x2n(1-)
where:
m = no. of appliances discharging simultaneously 4.0535 nos ~ 5nos
n = no. of appliances installed 13 nos
= appliance discharge time (t) / intervals between use (T) 0.1 min

Calculation:
A Service: Kitchen Sink
1 Applications:
7nos of Sinks (5nos discharging simultaneously)
Sink flow rate = 8 litres/min
Total Sink Flowrate 8x5 = 40 litres/min

Hot water portion 40 x 37.5% = 15.00 litres/min

2 Assumptions:

Timed net water flow per wash, t = 1 mins

In between wash interval, T = 10 mins
Total = 11 mins

In one (1) hour maximum number of washes for per sink = 60/11
= 5.4545 times
Total maximum washes in one hour 6x1 = 6 times

Total maximum hot water demand based on above assumption per hour
= 90 litres

3 Based on Rheem EH-55M storage water heater:

i) Tank capacity (from catalogue) = 55 litres
ii) Recovery time (from catalogue) = 50 mins
iii) Heating element input (from catalogue) = 3 kW

Water heater recovery capacity = tank capacity

x 1 hour
recovery time
= 55 litres
x 60
50 mins
= 66.00 litres

Actual water heater recovery capacity = heater capacity x heater efficiency

= 66.00 l/m x 80%
= 52.8
4 Equipment selection:
Total hot water demand = 0.8 (required storage capacity) + hot water recovery
required storage capacity = 46.5 L < 55L
required storage capacity < water heater selected capacity

Therefore, 1 unit of Rheem electric storage water heater Model:EH-55M (55L@3kW) should be adequate to supply
hot water to 13nos of kitchen sinks, of which, 5nos were assumed to be discharging simultaneously